Introduction A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a neurodivergent individual who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli.1 Some refer to this as having sensory processing sensitivity, or SPS for short. A sensitive nervous system makes it harder to filter out stimuli and easier to get […]

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I realize that the digital wave is leaving behind older people who deserve our attention as well. So I’ve been looking for this information for weeks. In order to learn how to study the acceptance behaviour of older people towards digital technology, in recent weeks I have […]

Here I have   The post tracking back my progress   From Now   All the way back to   Week 5…       What have I done…   I found it just super hard for me to keep this consistently as a weekly report as I realized I would sometimes overthink about what […]

As mentioned in the previous blog post, the impact of digital inclusive finance on the urban-rural income gap in China is an issue that I would like to further investigate. In order to investigate this issue, it is definitely necessary to read some relevant theories and literature. For example, Lewis first proposed the theory of […]

A few weeks ago, I had a call with Richard Banks from Microsoft Research in which I discussed my area of work and learned about the non-academic research environment. I was interested in whether the combination of my design background and my more recent approach and area of interest (being developed on this course) might […]

Project Identity When looking into more literature, I was able to discover some studies discussing public perception and teachers, namely, “Americans’ Views of Public School Teachers and Personnel in the Wake of COVID-19” by Doonan and Kenneally (2022).  Not only is this source recent and relevant, it asks a great deal of the questions that […]

A little late in posting this week: Though I have not fully come to a conclusion on what my final project will be, discussions with peers and through courses has helped to identify a good route for what my project will center around.  I believe I have officially settled on discussing the retention of teachers, […]

November turned into a busy month between classes and my own projects. Outside of these, much of what I wrestled with involved pivoting away from what I had initially thought I was focusing on (as mentioned in my Week 6-7 post) and going back to the drawing board. My Migration and Forced Displacement Intensive was […]

I’ve been busy with my assignments for a while now, so I haven’t had time to put together ideas for my thesis. My initial idea is in the direction of tax law and income inequality. My initial concern was to find out what strategies the US has used to reduce tax evasion that China could […]

Last two weeks, some things happened in China, which made me feel desperate and I decided to change my research topic. I took part in the course Learning and resilience which fits well with my research interests in psychology and mental health. The topic of my assessment is about highly sentisitive person (HSP) and how […]